Excerpts from the presentation:

- France provides all children, rich and poor, with a comprehensive system of education and care

- Pre-elementary schools for all children ages three to five, called ecoles meternelles

- Various forms of subsidized care for children under three, including licensed day care centres, called creches

- A public-private system of preventative health care for mother and child known as Protection Maternelle et Infantile (PMI)